P&P Brantingham’s enormous contribution to criminology has paved the way for major theoretical and empirical developments in the understanding of crime and its respective patterns, prevention, and geometry. In this unique collection of original essays, Andresen and Kinney bring together leading scholars in the field of environmental criminology to honour the work of P&P Brantingham with new research on the geometry of crime, patterns in crime and crime generators and attractors.
Chapters include new perspectives on the crime mobility triangle, electronic monitoring, illegal drug markets, the patterns of vehicle theft for export, prolific offender patterns,crime rates in hotels and motels, violent crime and juvenile crime. A final chapter gathers together a collection of letters to P&P Brantingham, from key scholars reflecting on and celebrating their important contribution.
This volume provides essential readings for those interested in the field of environmental criminology.
1. Editors’ Introduction: Patterns, Prevention, and Geometry of Crime, J. Bryan Kinney and Martin A. Andresen 2. Mobility Polygons and the Geometry of Co-Offending, Marcus Felson, Martin A. Andresen, and Richard Frank 3. Spatial-Temporal Crime Paths, D. Kim Rossmo, Yongmei Lu, and Tianfang Fang 4. The Edge of the Community: Drug Dealing in a Segregated Environment, George F. Rengert, Brian Lockwood, and Eric S. McCord 5. Estimating the Number of U.S. Vehicles Stolen for Export Using Crime Location Quotients, Steven Block, Ronald V. Clarke, Michael G. Maxfield, and Gohar Petrossian 6. Crime Patterns and Prolific Offending, Tim E. Croisdale 7. Sleeping with Strangers: Hotels and Motels as Crime Attractors and Crime Generators, James LeBeau 8. How Near is Near? Quantifying the Spatial Influence of Crime Attractors and Generators, Jerry H. Ratcliffe 9. Urban Backcloth and Regional Mobility Patterns as Indicators of Juvenile Crime, Gisela Bichler, Aili Malm, and Jill Christie-Merrall 10. Spatial Interplay: Interaction of Land Uses in Relation to Crime Incidents Around Transit Stations, Jennifer B. Robinson and Lauren M. Giordano 11. Letters to P. & P. Brantingham
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